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Voter News Service General Election Exit Polls, 1996 (ICPSR 6989)

Principal Investigator(s):Voter News Service

Summary:

For this data collection, interviews were conducted with
voters in the 50 states and the District of Columbia as they left
their polling places on Election Day, November 5th, 1996. Respondents
were asked a series of questions about their vote choices in the
Senate, congressional, and gubernatorial races (as appropriate to
their state), and the issues and factors that most influenced those
votes. Additional topics covered President Bill Clinton's land use
policies, Clinton's role in Whi... (more info)

For this data collection, interviews were conducted with
voters in the 50 states and the District of Columbia as they left
their polling places on Election Day, November 5th, 1996. Respondents
were asked a series of questions about their vote choices in the
Senate, congressional, and gubernatorial races (as appropriate to
their state), and the issues and factors that most influenced those
votes. Additional topics covered President Bill Clinton's land use
policies, Clinton's role in Whitewater, environmental issues,
immigration, abortion, Medicare, the budget deficit and taxes, same-sex
marriages, tobacco industry, the death penalty, and approval ratings
for Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and Congress. Demographic
information was collected on sex, race, age, religion, education,
political party identification, and family income.

Universe:
United States voters participating in the November 5,
1996, election.

Data Types:
survey data

Methodology

Sample:
In each state, a sample of exit poll precincts was drawn.
Respondents in these precincts were given a "state" questionnaire.
However, a subsample of these precincts was selected to be part of the
national sample. In this subsample, respondents were
given a "National" questionnaire. Because the national questionnaire
has several items in common with the state questionnaire, national
respondents are included in the state exit poll datasets for these
common questions.

Time Method:
Longitudinal: Trend / Repeated Cross-section

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Restrictions: This data collection may not be used for any purpose other
than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the
identity of any person or establishment is prohibited.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1997-09-19

Version History:

2011-08-25 Documentation has been updated.

2011-07-06 SAS, SPSS and Stata setups have been added to this data collection. Also, data files for parts 29 to 33 were incorrectly labeled. Therefore, the names of the data files were corrected.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 53 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.